THE POTENTIAL for alien life has fascinated people worldwide for years with eagle-eyed fans of the extra-terrestrial always on the hunt for a genuine UFO sighting.

Russia has had more UFO sightings than any other nation. One reason for the multitude of UFO cases is that Russian borders surround the largest land mass in the world. Of the reported UFO sightings, the most compelling case is know as the Dalnegorsk Incident. Here is a look back at the remarkable 1986 Dalnegorsk Crash, an incident that resonates powerfully with what allegedly occurred at Roswell in 1947.

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This internationally famous UFO incident took place in 1986, on January 29, at 7.55 pm and according to a documentary is the “best documented crash”.

That cold January day, a reddish sphere flew into the a small mining town from in the Far East of Russia the southeastern direction, crossing part of Dalnegorsk before crashing at the Izvestkovaya Mountain – also known as Height or Hill 611, because of its size.

The object flew noiselessly, and parallel to the ground; it was approximately three metres in diameter, of a near-perfect round shape, with no projections or cavities, its colour similar to that of burning stainless steel.

One eyewitness, V. Kandakov, said that the speed of the UFO was close to 15 metres per hour.

The object slowly ascended and descended, and its glow would heat up every time it rose up.

On its approach to Hill 611 the object "jerked", and fell down like a rock.

According to a scientist on Amazon Prime documentary “The Secret KGB Files”: “It is the best documented crash because we do not have the fragments that have been analysed.

“It was a small probe, it was not kind of a big object.”

The crash still has a legacy today, too.

Mesh-like fragments found at the site (Image: Wikipedia )

Noticeably the crash sparked adverse affects in blood and is said to have caused a decrease in leukocyte count and an increase in bacteria.

Scientists believe the reason is the impact on the soil of ultra-high temperatures and the radiation of unknown nature.

Almost two years after the disaster in November 1987 in the area of Dalnegorsk noted unusually high activity of unidentified flying objects.

In five administrative districts of Primorye there were 33 registered objects in just one day alone.

One of the silver balls found at the site (Image: Wikipedia )

They had different forms – cigar-shaped, cylindrical, spherical – and moved absolutely silently.

Falsifying the incident and claims that is fake have been argued against as impossible because eyewitnesses of the mass invasion of UFOs were more than 100 people – workers, intellectuals, policemen, military.